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I believe it was entitled (with a typo) "Lees Snow than Usual"--or something to that extent. It seems to have been removed. Who removed it without telling the person (me), who created the thread? Why has the thread been removed? Brian

MSR is going to have to rename their snowshoe line now!

Boy that was a brutally cold week up north! Low snow, very cold. Terrible for ice climbing, but also hopefully terrible for ticks, and maybe we will have a kinder tick-season for 2025.

We went up Cascade Brook Trail, and I naively thought we would be breaking trail from start to finish. Nope! There were six cars in the parking lot when we arrived, although a couple were for folks with children just enjoying the water down low. Moreover, the entire trail up to the lake was...

Little did I realize when I posted the original back in 2015 that the name would revert back to Mt. McKinley, but that was a Day 1 priority, because...it's so important and the people of Alaska were clamoring for it. Hard to believe that made the inaugural address, but it did, and Alaska's...

This might be worth the two minute's of your time it would take to read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surface_temperature It's quite well written and approachable.

Sir, with all due respect, civilians and scientists have been accurately recording the temperature for centuries. (Fun fact: Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson routinely recorded the temperatures at their estates). From the official timeline of the National Weather Service: By the...

The short report is worth the read. Here is an excerpt: Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 20th-century baseline (1951-1980), which tops the record set in 2023. The new record comes after 15 consecutive months (June 2023 through...

Went up north to the White Mountains for a little birthday backpacking this weekend. Drove up January 18, 2025. My friend Jniehof could only do Saturday, so he left his car at the bottom of the Fishin’ Jimmy Trail at the base of Lafayette Campground, where I met him. The parking lot was...

Agreed. The smell was horrible! Hiking over the tracks, seeing all the unburnt detritus. Electric trains would be wonderful!

Someone went up Jefferson on Friday. Didn't report any problems: "Went to Jefferson out and back via Jewell, Gulfside, and Jefferson Loop. Snowshoes start to finish. Jewell Trail had some previous boot traffic that stopped once unbroken snow depth increased above treeline. Above this previous...

The problem is that if we talk about the Inconvenient Truth of global warming and cite newspapers, it's elitist. Same with peer-reviewed papers. AI is wonderfully non-elitist, but it appears we shouldn't use that either. Thank you, DayTrip, that was hilarious! But back to the real world now...

Oh, I don’t mess around with that stuff. This was from NE Ice.

What makes something "unsupported"? skiguy asked if anyone ever takes their time. So if someone cached halfway through because they would take too long to be able to carry all their food, what adjective would apply? "self-supported"? "Supported" doesn't seem quite right.

Well, Lafayette has a hut below it. From this article, it does seem to be an issue, "We're seeing human waste along trails,” Benna says. "Trouble on the Trails" The other thing is that we really don't want people stepping off trail on the ridge and destroying the diapensia. It is less of an...

I used to know someone in their treasurer's office. He said the huts ran even at best, or took a loss. It would be interesting to see the number of people who use their bathrooms for free over the course of a year. The AMC was a key part of my life when I lived in Boston. Made friendships...

I took my grid spreadsheet and plotted out the calendar days. Finished the grid but not even half the calendar days. I keep hiking on the same ones (holidays) and not the ones three days off.

[FYI, there is a 10,000 character limit to a post, so I have to split this in two, BJG] "Fire Tower List Finishers "Winter" 2024" Bryan Cuddihee...

From Ed Hawkins # # # rid Finishers 2024 Name...

The gent who runs "North East Ice" on Facebook asked ChatGPT about the future of ice climbing in the north east. (A post from January 1, 2025) # # # Looking out the window on dismal rainy day in January, I thought I would ask Chat GBT, what is the future of ice climbing in the Northeast US...